Houston Roads

Today, Doug Pike discusses Houston roads, weather balloons, and pets.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, Don, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you, theode.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, Wednesday edition of the program starts now. Thank
you all for listening. Several more dry days ahead and
yesterday and today pretty dog gone nice, although the humidity
was clearly a little bit heavier this morning and temperatures
are climbing up again. After Boy, when I got out

(01:05):
of bed and got out of the house this morning,
it was in the high sixties. I kind of like that.
And I would imagine if if I could stand to
live any farther from the coast, probably it could have
been in the low sixties, I guess, up around the woodlands,
or maybe even in the high fifties. Wouldn't that be
nice for a change, And plenty of sunshine. That's the
good news. Vitamin D, which is very important, actually vital

(01:28):
to our health. If you've never had your vitamin D
level checked, next time you do a physical and get
blood drawn, get them to do that for you. Oh
good heavens, that's got to be a spam call. That's
got to be a spam call. I'll check it later. Nobody,
nobody would do that. The market's doing what they do.

(01:48):
A little on the green, little on the red, but
no significant movement overall. Mortgage rates down a tick or two.
I heard somebody say to the lowest level, I want
to say, in months or maybe a year, it's been
quite a while since they were where they are now,
and that should be music to the ears of home
builders and buyers alike. And gold up another ten bucks

(02:11):
and closing in very fast on thirty seven hundred dollars
an ounce it won't be long. And the forecast I
saw yesterday of it going up to four thousand dollars
this year suddenly seems attainable. It's hard for me to
pull the trigger on investing in gold. But then again,

(02:34):
the last time that I really noticed the price of gold,
it was more than one thousand dollars lower than it
is now, and that wasn't that long ago. If you
look at the way gold is going and the way
the world is going, wouldn't hurt to have a couple
of ounces of it laying around somewhere, maybe a pound.

(02:57):
Just go buy an even pound of gold. That sound
upity into the news. I guess there's a lot of
head scratching going on after release of a video that
is said to show a hellfire missile air to air
missile striking what they call now a UAP an unidentified
aerial phenomenon formerly known as UFO. Anyway, with both objects

(03:23):
moving at great speed, the missile that the video is
from above, and the missile hits this orb kind of
in its side and just bounces off. This thing wobbles
a little bit, kind of rotates some from the energy
of the strike. But there was no detonation, There was

(03:45):
no just no nothing. It just kept on going, kept going,
didn't slow down, didn't stray off its course. And in
testimony several people who are experts in these types of
things said they know of no US technology that could
withstand the strike of a hell fire missile. And as

(04:10):
this thing flew away. Also worth noting, the people who
were there said it showed no traditional propulsion signature, no
after burners, no heat, no, no anything. But it was
something we just don't know what, and that kind of

(04:31):
fascinates me. There was somebody online who that, oh, it
was just a balloon, but a balloon doesn't repel a
missile like that. If that were a balloon, the missile
would have torn through it and ripped it to shreds
and burn it up, and it would have been pretty
simple to tell that happened. I'm not falling for the

(04:51):
balloon thing. I'd believe a lot of things before i'd
go for that one. If you see something way up
in the air, that's possibly a weather balloon. That happens
quite often. Actually, the Air Force and all the law
enforcement people get UFO calls for what turned out to
be common weather balloons, but not in this case, and

(05:14):
not as fast as that thing was moving. I don't
know how balloon could move that fast. Leaving the leaving
the unknown and coming back to the known. Right here
at the county level, Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo continues
to I think show her lack of negotiation skills when

(05:37):
it comes to craft in a budget that's gonna meet
the greater needs of the most county residents rather than
a budget that just makes no fiscal sense and includes
things that, frankly, that the wells run dry for some
of the programs she wants to continue funding even though
we're I don't know, what is it two hundred million

(05:57):
dollars in debt as a county. That just doesn't make sense.
And just recently, by the way, they did find a
half a million dollars to host the Gay Softball World Series.
And I more power to them if they want to
play softball, that's fine with me. I played baseball for
a long time, played a little softball. It's a fun sport.

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But I don't think we needed to spend two hundred
or five hundred thousand dollars to host that event. Drainage,
that's a big issue, roads, bigger issue, actually, and I've
got more on that in a minute. Law enforcement, firefighters,
huge issues for the people who live here. Property tax

(06:39):
hikes not a great idea, but she loves them. Speaking
as a person who's not going to be impacted at
all by that decision if it goes through which it
probably won't because she hadn't known a home. She talked
about that just this week. She rents because she can't
afford to own. She says on her she makes one
hundred and ninety and her her husband. I don't know

(07:03):
what he makes, but I'm sure he does well. And
between the two of them, they could buy something, I
would imagine. I just I think they've chosen not to,
and that's their choice. I'm not knocking her for that.
But she doesn't own a home, so she doesn't know
what property taxes do. What it means when you get
your property tax raised and you get your the evaluation

(07:26):
of your property raised in the same year, all of
a sudden, you go from paying too much to weigh
too much. Yesterday, again, when she didn't get what she
wanted to, she left the meeting just said I don't
remember the exact quote, but it was some petty little thing,
and then she walked out of the room. That's not
a good negotiating strategy. I'm just gonna take my ball

(07:48):
and go home, and then I'll be back in a
little while, and maybe I'll bring some more kids with me.
We got to take a break. Cedar Cove RV resort
over there on Trinity Bay on Tri City Beach Road,
near Thompson's Bay Camp, right there on the water, and
all the amenities you could possibly want in a place
to park your carcass for an evening or a weekend,

(08:12):
or if you want a week or six weeks, doesn't matter.
Cedar Cove's got electric water and sewer hookups at every site,
free Wi Fi, a bathhouse with showers, and all of that,
plus some pretty dog on good fishing when the conditions
are right, and they have been right lately. The winds
have kind of light kind of lightened up. Recently we

(08:35):
had nicer temperatures. I would suspect that there were more
than one or two redfish and drum and even maybe
a couple of sheep's head, maybe some whiting, maybe a
couple of croakers. Who knows. There were some good fish
caught over there this past weekend. I'd bet on that.
Concrete slabs all the way throughout, no muddy roads, no,

(08:56):
none of that. Got a convenience store if you've forgot something,
don't want to right back to town. He even has
an RV that he rents out over there if you
want to try the experience before you go dropping the
money for an RV or a motor home of your own.
Just go over there. It's kind of like a A

(09:16):
B and B on the bay. Will came up with that,
and I think that's a great way to express what
he's got going over there, and uh Al Kibby was
plenty happy to use that expression, A B and B
on the Bay. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com, Cedar Covearvresort
dot com. What's life without a nap? If I suggest

(09:38):
to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, let's start it off.
Second segment starts now, thank you for listening, certainly to
appreciate it. Let me get the clock on my phone
here so that when it's time, I can know when
to stop talking. So Will doesn't have to to raise

(10:01):
the fingers because our clock is not working in.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
The studio again. Now, the whole whole giant screen is
just you know, I'm having trouble. I got my new
laptop about a week ago, Will, maybe two weeks ago now,
and finally dove into it spurred on by the email
I got this morning that said, Hi, we know you
have your new laptop, and guess what, We're going to

(10:24):
turn your old one off in a week on the sixteenth.
The old ones get turned off, get they become no
longer workable. So for the past week or so, I've
been trying to, in baby steps, get the new one
loaded up and get it ready to go. And I
got frustrated this morning and finally got a tech person

(10:45):
on the phone who very patiently walked me through exactly
what needed to be done, and we got it all done,
and lo and behold, it was working. But we had
to do kind of a reboot after what he told
me was going to be a fifteen or twenty minute
load and an update thing that he had to start

(11:07):
before he waved goodbye and hung up the phone. And
so I see it start on the old or on
the new computer, And I said, Hey, can I work
on the old one while the new one's taking on
all this new stuff? Oh yeah, that's not going to
be a problem. So I I let the old the
new one run, and I went and popped open the

(11:29):
old one and got a lot of work done. I
sure did and when the new one finally said, okay,
I'm ready to kick in again, punch in my work
my password, it says welcome Doug, and then it goes
jet black, both screens jet black, Welcome Doug to darkness.

(11:53):
So I tried a couple of times to get it
started again and it just absolutely refused. So I'm gonna
have to call him back after the show and say, hey, man,
what'd you do to my machine? And I followed instructions
and it's not his fault. I'm not blaming him, but
something there's a glitch in there. There's a grimlin, as

(12:15):
we older people used to say. Moving forward, Texas A
and M University, the folks who run the show there
have ordered a system wide audit of every course they
offer at all twelve of these system's universities. This on
the heels. We talked about it yesterday of this professor

(12:36):
now former professor by the way, they fired him overnight,
who made a student leave his classroom because he didn't
want to hear about gender identity lessons being proposed for
toddlers and grade schoolers in a class he'd signed up
for about children's literature. There were some pretty pretty questionable

(12:58):
topics being in there, and the guy just said, hey,
I don't think this is right, and he got booted
out of the class for having an opinion other than
that of the professor here in Houston. By the way,
if you drive on the freeways, you've almost certainly noticed
somewhere in your travels miles and miles of resurfacing underway

(13:20):
that start with the I don't know how they chop
up the surface of that concrete, but it's a hot
mess once they finish, and now I'm sure it's just
grinding away our tires when we're driving on that stuff,
absolutely ruining them. And once it's done. The Southwest Freeway
that I drive most often, I've gone through stages of

(13:44):
it now where they do all the grinding for a
little stretch and then they come back and do a
couple of lanes with fresh, beautiful new asphalt overnight, and
that would be ready to go in the morning, and
half the freeways crunchy and half the freeways smooth. And
it's just they're doing all this with plans to do

(14:04):
pretty much every major thoroughfare are in and around the
whole of Harris County, probably, and it didn't dawn on
me until somebody said it this morning on the talkback
line over on k t RH. But my gut says
this guy was absolutely right when he said the only

(14:25):
reason they're dressing up these roads is so that Houston
shines a little brighter for everybody who comes here for
the World Cup next year. We've got seven games of
the one hundred and four that are going to be
played to determine the winner, and we wouldn't want our
guests tearing up their rental cars and getting their fillings
knocked out driving on the roads we've got right now,

(14:47):
the ones you and I bounce and bang on every
single day, every single day. There's a strip of fifty
nine roughly from about let's call it bel Air to
the West Park Curve that has these random little they're
not potholes, they're sinkholes, or they had them at least

(15:08):
in the old asphalt, and about every every four or
five weeks they'd come back and patch them up, and
about three or four weeks later, because the patches weren't
holding well, they'd be bouncing you around again. It forces
drivers to drive out of their lane a little bit,

(15:30):
not completely out, but you've got to straddle that stripe
on one side or the other if you don't want
to get your shocks torn up. I hope that I
hope that this new dress up of fifty nine solves
that issue once and for all, or at least for
a little while. And I can't really, I can't figure
out why those specific places had to have that problem

(15:54):
because they are pretty measured and they are pretty much
in a line. Hopefully that'll be the end of all
that and will be okay, just hopefully, you know. Also
here in Houston, from a Texas scorecard story, a Muslim
im mom has called on local Muslim businesses to comply
with Sharia law and stop selling products forbidden under Islamic law,

(16:19):
such as pork and alcohol and lottery tickets. There's a
video that was shown. I don't I haven't seen the video.
I don't necessarily need to see the video, but what
it does, it shows this religious leader telling small business
owners that they're going to face demonstrations and boycotts if

(16:41):
they don't stop selling these products. And Ted Cruz was
among the first of many now who've spoken out following
publication of that video. To quote Ted Cruz, Sharia law
has no force in America. This religious harassment is outrageous
and it likely violates multiple federal and state laws. End quote.

(17:03):
You know, any introduction of shreal law that overrides, or
at least even tries to override federal and state law
in this country seems kind of like an attempt to
control people who are simply trying to provide for their families.
Our country encourages all of us to practice whatever religion
we want, it doesn't matter, freely do it. There's dozens

(17:26):
of recognized religions in this country, but it only recognizes
one justice system. And well that although there's certainly been
no shortage of judges lately who want to bring politics
to the bench, that's kind of been a mess for
a while. Let's lighten it up a little bit, Will,
Let's go to Oh, this is a fun fact. I

(17:48):
told Will just before we came on the air. And
I don't know why it matters, except that the World
Cup's coming next year and we can all take a
look at it. And when the first time you turn
it on, are accidentally over it while you're scrolling through channels,
or the next time you just look at a soccer
game on television a professional soccer game. Know that an

(18:10):
NBA basketball court, the whole thing fits comfortably inside a
soccer penalty box, which makes me wonder how many people
they think are going to be penalized to the point
that they have to get off the field. I don't
know how a soccer penalty box works. Actually, they just
they throw a yellow card up and that's that. The

(18:33):
player still keeps playing till unless they get another one.
Or if you just hit somebody upside the head, you
might get a red card and be tossed out of
the game. Maybe does that when they have to go
sit in the penalty box? Do you know will thumb
up thumb down? No? I don't either. I have no idea. Somebody, please,
somebody calls and explain all that. Seven one three two

(18:54):
one two nine five nine zero another conversation starter, and
probably under if you're allergic to cats, you're also allergic
to lines and tigers. I don't intend to get close
enough to a wild lion or a wild tiger, or
even one in captivity to find out whether it's going

(19:18):
to make me sneeze, Because if I'm close enough for
it to make me sneeze, it's close enough to rip
my head off, and I'm not interested in that part
of it. They're a fascinating program. Oh we got to
go oh man, yeappy, yeah and yeah, sorry, Well all
the way out. UT Health Institute on Aging is that
collaborative I've talked about for the better part of ten

(19:39):
years now, maybe more than a thousand providers all over town,
mostly in the med center, but many of them also
working wherever you live, within a few miles probably, And
what they have done is gone back and got an
additional training and education in how to apply their specific
medical knowledge. There are a couple of other entities around

(20:04):
here now starting to talk about finally starting to talk
about the things they want to offer seniors, but UT
Health Institute on Aging is a decade ahead in taking
care of us and taking care of people who have
lived a pretty long life and want to keep living longer.
Go to their website, look at what they have to

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offer for nothing. It doesn't cost you a dime to
go to the website, peruse everything there, and then once
you realize how valuable that is to you, contemplate getting
in touch with one of the providers you can find
in there who are specially trained to take care of
you and help you fix whatever's broken. Utch dot edu

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slash aging. Uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of whack. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
On this sunshiny Wednesday afternoon, it's so nice to say
that and really mean it. I don't have to go
peek outside and see if they're building clouds on the
horizon somewhere. I'm pretty confident we're gonna be okay all day.
And you know what, that puts me in a good mood.
So I'm kind of stick with a little bit more
of the good stuff, although I do have quite a

(21:28):
few more points i'd like to make. Pardon me, let's
go to the good news. And this is just an
inspirational thing. But to be so fortunate in such a
timely manner. Well, here's this guy's story, this guy in
Western Canada. His name is where did I put it?

(21:48):
Daniel Drewing. Daniel Drewing. He just on a lark because
a lot of other people were doing it, and they
were all talking about it in the town, or in
the re or wherever he drops fifty bucks on a
lottery ticket. Then the lottery prize was a prefabricated cottage

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to be built wherever you wanted it more than ten
thousand entries. And he's got his ticket. He puts it
up on the man or wherever you put your ticket
for that. And then only days before the raffle, Drewing
gets a call from his son. This is like at
three in the morning. The guy's a musician, he's out

(22:32):
playing a gig or wrapping up, and on the way
home from the gig whatever, gets called from his son. Hey, dad,
house is on fire. Well his son old enough apparently
to get everybody out or maybe who knows. I don't
know how all of that worked out. But by the
time the firefighters were done and drew And got home,

(22:53):
his house is pretty much gone. And then a few
days later, boy who can't see this coming, huh? A
few days later, when the winning ticket was drawn, Daniel
drew And got a phone call he had won the cottage,
and life just got a little better for the drew
In family. I like stories. Like that. I always the

(23:16):
the small selfish side of me wishes it that I
could win the lottery someday, or wishes that I could
fall into something like that. But if I don't, I've
still had a pretty good life. I'm not gonna lie
to you. I hadn't been cheated when it comes to
going to cool places and having fun doing the things

(23:38):
I like to do. Man, I'm very happy for anybody
who who comes across that opportunity and cash is in
on it. More power to him. The two people who
won the lottery, they're gonna cash what like four hundred
million dollars apiece. Four hundred million is their cut each

(24:01):
out of that monstrous lottery we'd laid in. They're gonna
get a little bit of our money. There were several
people here at iHeart who contributed twice, because that first
one didn't go out at all, and then the second
one the two winners came up. But more power to them.
I think the first time we won like six dollars
or something like that out of all the tickets we had,

(24:21):
and we had a lot. Out of all those tickets
we won, not even enough for a double cheeseburger. That's Okay,
I'll see the heartstrings thing for maybe a little bit later.
I've got one little tug at you a little bit.
I'm just gonna warn you keep the Kleenex's handy when
I start reading about Bella. Okay, that's all I'm gonna

(24:44):
tell you. At Bella, that's all I'm gonna tell you.
It didn't even rhyme. I'm sorry. In case you missed it.
By the way, the revised jobs report that posted a
final count for former President Biden shows that when he
left office, he pretty much left our nation nine hundred
and eleven thousand jobs short of what was originally reported

(25:10):
for his final reporting period. Thanks Joe, thanks for nothing.
In let's see, uh, Jasmine Crockett, she is. She is
really providing a lot of reportable material and didn't let
me down this time either. She done it plenty of times.

(25:32):
She may have out done herself. State Rep. Jasmin Crockett
actually said out loud that law enforcement's role isn't to
prevent crime. There's a direct quote from her. It says,
and I quote, I want to be clear that like
law enforcement isn't to prevent crime, law enforcement solves crime. Okay,

(25:53):
that is what they're supposed to do. They are supposed
to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening, per
end quote. Really that's what you think. So the criminals
get to do whatever they want, and the police are
just supposed to sit back until the phone rings and

(26:14):
not worry about trying to be out there and be
proactive against crime. What is waiting somebody call till somebody
calls and says, hey, yeah, I got dead people in
the street here. I need you to come over. Yeah,
we'll send a couple of detectives. No. In another head scratcher,
she criticized President Trump's use of National Guard troops to

(26:38):
regain law and order in some of these high crime cities.
Here's a quote from that one, and I quote Jasmine Crockett,
how is it that we have a government that's hostile
toward its people? End quote. Well, for the record, our
government in hostile toward any law abiding person anywhere. The
effort is to root out and arrest people who are

(26:58):
committing violent crime against the rest of us. And I
guess maybe they have to call law enforcement when somebody
commits a crime so they can go out and enforce
the law and rather than try to prevent it. Just
sit around watching reruns of Hogan's Heroes or something till
the phone rings. Police everybody just stay in the station
house until Jasmine calls and tells you she's been robbed.

(27:22):
How can she be that detached and uninformed of the
role of law enforcement unless she's only trying to keep
her name in the news. What do you know of
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(27:43):
go ahead and go to that website alat a latehealth
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of men our ages have enlarged non cancerous prostates. Starts
up around in your fifties, maybe sixties, and then it

(28:04):
doesn't get better until you do something about it. The
symptoms are uncomfortable at best, and can be much worse.
You go to a late health you can get an exam,
get treated for that with a very minimally invasive procedure
called prostate artery embolization, in which they go in they
identify the artery that's feeding that prostate with oxygenated blood

(28:29):
and then they cut off the blood supply. They just
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you gotta go. It shrivels up, and so do the symptoms.
They go away as well. Same for fibroids with women,
Same for some headpains that can be alleviated with vascular procedures,
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(28:50):
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Speaker 1 (29:21):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Fourth and final segment of the program. Start right now.
I've got about seven minutes to read about twenty minutes
worth of stuff but I'm not going to try to
get it all in. I will go to I will lead.
If you recall I talked about Bella and told you
to get the cleanexes handy. TikToker guy, I don't know
who he is. I didn't look him up. It's not

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it's not his story, it's Bella's story. TikToker shared online
the response he got from the staff of a Cheddars restaurant.
I'm not even sure where, doesn't matter Cheddar's restaurant. When
he arrived to pick up what was going to be
his thirteen year old black Labrador retriever's last meal, Bella
was scheduled to be put down the next morning, and

(30:11):
he wanted to offer up something to her just out
of gratitude. He was going to get her whatever he
could that he knew and hoped she would like for
that last meal that dog would ever eat, long and
rewarding life been a great companion to him throughout thirteen years.

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And what he did was he asked for, and the
quote from him was the most perfectly cooked steak the
kitchen could muster. And when he got to the restaurant
to pick it all up, he was greeted by the
entire staff. They had all come to meet him, all
wanting to offer him condolences over the looming loss of

(30:59):
his longtime friend. And as you might imagine, they also
comped the steak and some fries by the way, which
he thought she might eat. So, yeah, Bella's gone now.
But and I've been through that with pets, most recently
with a guinea pig actually that developed a cancer that

(31:21):
couldn't be cured. He just seemed kind of lethargic for
a little while, and we took him to the vet.
We had him in there every year for regular checkups,
and all of a sudden, this guinea pig was in
decline and we did everything in our power to keep
him going until it just came to that time when

(31:42):
we had to say goodbye to him. And that was hard.
It was hard on me. That little guinea pig and
I were tight. Man. His name was Stubbs. Stubbs was
his name, and in fact it kind of incidentally my
son named him. And that was also at the time
that we got Stubs, the name of one of my clients,

(32:05):
Jerry Sutton, over at Stubbs Cycles. He got a couple
of locations around town, and anyway that that guinea pig
would curl up on. I'd lean back in my big
brown chair, and that guinea pig would curl up on
my chest or on my shoulder and just fall asleep
and just chill there for a while. A very affectionate

(32:25):
little piggy and also very loud, very screechy. They are
just be forewarned when they want something and they're not
getting it. They learned that if you screeched loud enough,
your humans will come a running. And that we did. Good,
good little pet though a lot of fun. He really was. Ah,

(32:46):
got that, got that checked. I'm gonna pause on that one.
From the Poor Decisions Desk comes word Man, you just
gotta know, you gotta know the rules. Poor Decisions. Two
FEMA employees shown the door after they were caught for

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quite some time. It turns out exchanging sexually explicit messages
with foreign nationals and watching poornography. And I'm not talking
just your run of the mill missionary stuff. I'm talking
about Well, it goes into detailing the story. If you
really want to look it up, look it up. But
it's just gross and nasty what they were watching on

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their government issued devices, I might add, so they're gone.
Who else was it got fired? I can't remember a
lot of people getting fired lately. Back here in Houston,
only took a week for ICE agents to round up
more than eight hundred alleged criminal aliens. In another story

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from the Texan, the final tally of this whole raid
was eight hundred and twenty two individuals that included five
gang members, seven people convicted of sexual assault on a child,
three with homicide related convictions, and the infractions, if you will,
amongst the rest of them included human trafficking, sexual indecency

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with a minor, forgery, DWI, carjacking, and on and on
and on. But Jasmine doesn't think we need any law
enforcement out there. Just wait till one of them does something,
and then we'll go try to find them. I would
much prefer to be proactive when it comes down to

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me potentially losing my life because some crackhead needs twenty bucks.
I don't want to be put in that position. Speaking
of crackheads, from the High Sease comes Worth of the
US Coast Guard vessel fired on and incapacitated. I mean,
they blew this boat up a drug smuggling boat that
had thirteen thousand pounds of cocaine on it, six and

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a half tons of cocaine. Seven people. They call them
suspected smugglers in the story. You think they're in the
middle of the ocean on a boat running at high
speed with thirteen thousand pounds of cocaine. Yeah, I suspect
they're guilty of smuggling cocaine. The cartels more and more

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using that was just a speed boat. A lot of
times now they're using these semi submersible boats to kind
of hide from traditional radar while they're delivering all their
illegal drugs. Those boats cost millions of dollars to build,
but the return on the investment is so good that
even if they get sunk after a few deliveries, they're
making money. It's a game to the bad guys, that's

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the sad part. But the game they play kills a
lot of young people in this country. Twenty twenty four,
drug overdoses killed eighty thousand, three hundred and ninety one Americans.
Twenty three it was worse one hundred and ten thousand.
That change. I've got something about teaching for tomorrow that
I will get to for sure, and where we are

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really as a nation and as educating our kids, and
it's not good news. I can tell you that what
have we got will ten seconds? Yeah, I thought so.
I'll let it go. I'll let this ten seconds pass.
I'll want you to go outside right now and get
a little vitamin D for the rest of the afternoon,
enjoy yourselves. We'll be back tomorrow. Audios.